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great depres·sion

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Great Depressionnoun

    the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s

  2. Depression, Great Depressionnoun

    a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment

Wiktionary

  1. Great Depressionnoun

    A major economic collapse that lasted from 1929 to 1940 in the US and a similar period in many other countries.

Wikipedia

  1. Great Depression

    The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations; in most countries it started in 1929 and lasted until the late-1930s. It was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 20th century. In the 21st century, the Great Depression is commonly used as an example of how intensely the world's economy can decline.The Great Depression started in the United States after a major fall in stock prices that began around September 4, 1929, and became worldwide news with the stock market crash of October 29, 1929 (known as Black Tuesday). Between 1929 and 1932, worldwide gross domestic product (GDP) fell by an estimated 15%. By comparison, worldwide GDP fell by less than 1% from 2008 to 2009 during the Great Recession. Some economies started to recover by the mid-1930s. However, in many countries the negative effects of the Great Depression lasted until the beginning of World War II.The Great Depression had devastating effects in countries both rich and poor. Personal income, tax revenue, profits and prices dropped, while international trade plunged by more than 50%. Unemployment in the U.S. rose to 25% and in some countries rose as high as 33%.Cities around the world were hit hard, especially those dependent on heavy industry. Construction was virtually halted in many countries. Farming communities and rural areas suffered as crop prices fell by about 60%. Facing plummeting demand with few alternative sources of jobs, areas dependent on primary sector industries such as mining and logging suffered the most.

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  1. great depression

    The Great Depression was a severe, worldwide economic crisis that occurred during the 1930s. It originated in the United States in 1929, after a major fall in stock prices, leading to the stock market crash known as "Black Tuesday." This event caused a profound impact on virtually all countries and led to widespread unemployment, impoverishment, loss of businesses, and significant drops in GDP. The depression lasted for about a decade and only ended with the onset of World War II. It is considered the most severe economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world.

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  1. Great Depression

    The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in 1930 and lasted until the late 1930s or middle 1940s. It was the longest, most widespread, and deepest depression of the 20th century. In the 21st century, the Great Depression is commonly used as an example of how far the world's economy can decline. The depression originated in the U.S., after the fall in stock prices that began around September 4, 1929, and became worldwide news with the stock market crash of October 29, 1929. The Great Depression had devastating effects in countries rich and poor. Personal income, tax revenue, profits and prices dropped, while international trade plunged by more than 50%. Unemployment in the U.S. rose to 25%, and in some countries rose as high as 33%. Cities all around the world were hit hard, especially those dependent on heavy industry. Construction was virtually halted in many countries. Farming and rural areas suffered as crop prices fell by approximately 60%. Facing plummeting demand with few alternate sources of jobs, areas dependent on primary sector industries such as cash cropping, mining and logging suffered the most.

Editors Contribution

  1. Great Depressionnoun

    According tNouriel Roubini, economist, known as "Dr. Doom" for his accurate predictions of financial/economic crises, it's what happened 90 years ago, and will begin about 2025, only worse. Check it out...

    cc: the one you already have--it'll suffice..

    Etymology: great=i guess, Latin, like "gravitas"??///depression=Latin, as a place, etc., that is below a higher place...from affix de + press=apply force against + ion=I don't know...


    Submitted by sambergkenneth on January 7, 2022  

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of great depression in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

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    The numerical value of great depression in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of great depression in a Sentence

  1. Bill Gross:

    Cash or better yet' near cash' such as 1-2 year corporate bonds are my best idea of appropriate risks/reward investments, the reward is not much, but as Will Rogers once said during the Great Depression –.

  2. Donald Duncan:

    In 1997 we were the fastest growing manufacturing metro area in the country and four years later it collapsed, what you can see on the ground today is 3,000 job openings. China's emergence as the world's low-cost producer and export superpower following its World Trade Organization entry in 2001 dealt a heavy blow to traditional industrial communities such as Hickory. Economists David Autor, David Dorn and Gordon Hanson have tried to separate the impact of trade from other factors affecting U.S. manufacturing employment and they estimate that between 1990 and 2007 Hickory lost 16 percent of its manufacturing jobs just due to surging imports from China. DEEP SCARS. Buffeted by other headwinds, such as the 1994 North American Free Trade agreement and the lifting of textile quotas in 2004, the area lost 40,000 manufacturing jobs overall, half the total, between 2000 and 2009. Nationally, more than 5 million manufacturing jobs have disappeared since 2000, a period that also included the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. The collapse left deep and still visible scars that help explain the appeal of Trump's pledge to bring back manufacturing's glory days. In Hickory, disability rolls soared more than 50 percent between 2000 and 2014, swollen by older workers who struggled to return to the workforce. At the same time, the share of the 25-34 year old in the population fell by almost a fifth between 2000 and 2010. Consequently, even as the unemployment rate tumbled from a peak above 15 percent in 2010 to 4.6 percent today, below the national average, so did the labor force participation rate. It fell from above 68 percent in 2000 to below 59 percent in 2014. Poverty levels doubled. Yet the manufacturing upswing in areas that suffered the most during the downturn is evident. Rust belt states, such as Michigan, Indiana and Ohio that may prove pivotal in the Nov. 8 presidential election, have been adding manufacturing jobs faster than the economy as a whole. Michigan, for example, which lost nearly half of its manufacturing jobs between 2000 and 2009, has since then seen a 25 percent rise, well above the 4 percent gain nationally. Manufacturing employment there is still well below the levels in the 1990s. Economists debate whether returning to that level is realistic given technological advances that have reduced manufacturing's share of the workforce from a high of above 30 percent in the 1950s to around 8 percent today. But they also feel that have already seen the bottom, particularly when it comes to China's impact.

  3. Kalima Rose:

    We’re in the worst housing crisis since the Great Depression, so it’s a moment where the Biden administration could come in and really invest in game-changing programmes. That’s the opportunity.

  4. Barack Hussein Obama:

    It is something we were aware of in 2008 and we wanted to do more about, but the first thing was putting out a big fire to make sure we didn't have a great depression.

  5. General McChrystal:

    After World War II, we had just come out of the Great Depression, times were tough. But 16 million Americans served in the war, and a tremendous number of those people went somewhere else and had completely different experiences than what they were used to.


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